posted at 1:21 pm on June 27, 2014 by Noah Rothman

The documentary filmmaker and daughter of the House minority leader, Alexandra Pelosi, is promoting a new and heartbreaking documentary about the crisis at the southern border. Pelosi spent weeks speaking with undocumented migrants who have been led to believe that the United States is not only caring for women and children who cross the border but welcoming them to do so.

“[A]ll the young vulnerable, migrant women who just got to America that I spoke with saw the Border Patrol as the heroes who came to assist them on their journey,” Pelosi recently wrote in an op-ed published on MSNBC.com. “They all said that when they saw Border Patrol, they finally felt safe and happy to have survived their harrowing odyssey to get to the Promised Land.”

Once the border-crossers have been processed by the Department of Homeland Security, they are released – so throughout the day, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement delivers them to the Greyhound bus station where they are dropped off and forced to fend for themselves.

Pelosi paints a picture of waves of hopelessly naïve and needy immigrants who are convinced, ignoring all evidence to the contrary, that the United States will not deport them if they simply explain how dire their circumstances are in their home countries.

“Our message absolutely is don’t send your children unaccompanied on trains or through a bunch of smugglers,” the president said. “That is our direct message to families in Central America. Do not send your children to the borders. If they do make it, they’ll get sent back. More importantly, they may not make it.”

But Pelosi noted that the problem America faces on its borders is not one that can be solved by rhetoric. In fact, she said, the issue has been exacerbated by American politicians and the media – including the president.

She added that the press and the political class, by not clearly asserting that bad actors on the other side of the border are funneling migrants into the United States, American institutions are complicit in a humanitarian crisis.

“I worry, in all of this, that we could be facilitating human trafficking,” Pelosi said. She added that cartel members are now recruiting women in order to confuse American officials who provide women and children with special treatment.

Pelosi concluded by claiming that security at the border was a “hoax,” considering that a border fence can be thwarted by tools as simple as ladders and migrants are now welcoming their capture by border police. But the crisis at the Mexican border no longer explicitly a humanitarian one. Disturbing reports indicate that the situation on the border has a military dimension as well.

“Border Patrol agents in Arizona were reportedly fired upon by a Mexican military helicopter that traveled across the border,” a local CBS affiliate reported.

KVOA-TV reports that Mexican authorities were conducting a drug interdiction operation when the incident happened early Thursday morning on the Tohono O’odham Indian Nation. The Mexican chopper fired at the agents and then flew back into Mexico.

It’s perhaps fitting that, 100 years after the start of World War I, U.S./Mexico relations are at their worst point since the Zimmermann Telegram.

History has demonstrated clearly that borders can be hardened against military threats if the will to do so exists. While it may require some creative thinking, it is within the realm of the imagination that the border can be secured against a busload or two of Honduran women and children as well.

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“Our message absolutely is don’t send your children unaccompanied on trains or through a bunch of smugglers,” the president said.
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Which means the his message is just the opposite, because he is a liar.

Pelosi paints a picture of waves of hopelessly naïve and needy immigrants who are convinced, ignoring all evidence to the contrary, that the United States will not deport them if they simply explain how dire their circumstances are in their home countries.

Don’t these immigrants know that America is not the Land of Promise but is rife with homophobia, inequality and white privilege and patriarchy?

“I worry, in all of this, that we could be facilitating human trafficking,” Pelosi said. She added that cartel members are now recruiting women in order to confuse American officials who provide women and children with special treatment.

All by design, but it will have unexpected consequences, the likes obama had not thought about.

“Never let a crisis go to waste”…even if you have to create the crisis…

…The ends justifies the means…

There is no will, in either party, to effectively secure our borders. Nor is there any will to hold Mexico or the other Central American nations who are enabling and fueling this human invasion of the US accountable. All we get is empty rhetoric and demands for more billions of taxpayer funds.

If Obama wasn’t so focused on writing his own laws by executive fiat, he’d understand the incredible human cost his screwing around is exacting on the migrants themselves, the border patrol, states receiving these illegals, and safety net programs whose budgets are going to be blown up by these people. I know Progressives don’t care at all, but these people are risking their lives and its unconscionable that Obama won’t stop his encouragement.

“I worry, in all of this, that we could be facilitating human trafficking”

IT IS HUMAN TRAFFICKING!

And it’s doing a lot of harm and preventing reforms to improve the condition of the poor in Latin America. Corrupt elites over there use illegal immigration to get rid of those they don’t want to help and the U.S. is complicit in letting them in and making it so easy to obtain help from the government.

I hope that all amnesty adherents get TB or scabies, or any other disease the illegals bring, and that you itch eternally, no matter who you are. YOU deserve this demise for what you are doing to the land and her legal citizens.

I love the cartel and gang excuse. All this brand spanking new criminality going on South of the Border. Do they realize that there is no earthly way that we could be as stupid as they think we are and keep contributing taxes?

“KVOA-TV reports that Mexican authorities were conducting a drug interdictioninteraction operation when the incident happened early Thursday morning on the Tohono O’odham Indian Nation. The Mexican chopper fired at the agents and then flew back into Mexico.”

it is within the realm of the imagination that the border can be secured against a busload or two of Honduran women and children as well.

It’s tens of thousands, soon to be hundreds of thousands, of illegal aliens — very soon to be U.S. taxpayer-funded-welfare dependents –flooding across our border, at the invitation of the Obama administration.

We all know what this is. Obama is community organizing Mexico and Central America to force the USA into open borders to get more democrat voters and strain the social net even more. This is all he knows how to do other than destroy. Come to think of it this influx is destroying the USA just as sure as any of King Barky the Liar’s schemes have.

I’m afraid that our nation will not going to make it to 2017. I fully expect a terrorist attack that forces Obama to declare martial law and take complete dictator powers along the lines of Hitler in the 30s.

Since they can’t speak a word of English, they are paralyzed. Every time the bus pulls into a new terminal, they have to change buses, and they are completely lost in space. Even though they were given directions in Spanish, many have real problems navigating from one bus to another. So it’s unclear how we expect them to get to a courtroom for an immigration deportation hearing.

How is the mother of two heading to South Dakota without a word of English or a penny in her pocket going to make it to Chicago on July 17 for her court date?

Still, everyone I spoke with planned on showing up for their deportation hearings because they believe when they simply explain to the judge that they came here to give their children a better life, they will be granted permission to stay.

They can’t speak a lick of English, no job, mother’s with kids, most likely no family or friends and they just say they do, and they are released to the winds with the expectation of showing up in an entirely different city and state for their hearing? Why not ship them to Chicago where their hearing is and not where they want to go.

With the massive naivete from these illegals, how can anyone in this administration say with a straight face it isn’t due to their EO’s.

Also, I thought it was just the illegal unaccompanied minors that were being let go to relatives, not mothers with kids.

You did a post about a Pelosi? Who TF cares what any Pelosi has to say about anything? I don’t care what side this POS comes down on. Sort of like Marco Rubio – an idiot whose thoughts on anything and everything are totally meaningless.

We all know about Barky and his Too Fast, Too Furious operation to flood us with illegals. We don’t need any Pelosi douche to tell us about that.

The Zimmermann Telegram (or Zimmermann Note) was a 1917 diplomatic proposal from the German Empire for Mexico to join the Central Powers, in the event of the United States entering World War I on the side of the Entente Powers. The proposal was intercepted and decoded by British intelligence who at first was reluctant to inform the U.S. as it would have revealed that they were spying on this country. Revelation of the contents outraged American public opinion. President Woodrow Wilson moved to arm American merchant ships to defend themselves against German submarines, which had started to attack them. The news helped generate support for the United States declaration of war on Germany in April of that year.

According to a major new report from the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), net employment growth in the United States since 2000 has gone entirely to immigrants, legal and illegal. Using data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, CIS scholars Steven A. Camarota and Karen Zeigler found that there were 127,000 fewer working-age natives holding a job in the first quarter of 2014 than in 2000, while the number of immigrants with a job was 5.7 million above the 2000 level.

I’ll say it again, I really like this Noah fellow! In fact, now that HA finally wised up and hired a truly progressive writer, I find myself visiting my old stomping grounds at Huffington Post much less often.

Just a couple bits of Noah’s brilliance…he was the first HA contributor to point out that conservatives booted out Cantor – simply for being Jewish. He strongly endorses reasonable Republican politicians in throwing out our racist immigration policies, and he refuses to use racist terms, such as “Illegal Alien” or “Illegal Immigrant”. One bit of criticism Noah…, “Undocumented American” is the preferred term, but “Undocumented Migrant” is acceptable.

Again, welcome to Hot Air Noah! One or two more enlightened contributors of your stripe in here and we can finally turn this into a legit site.

I expect that years from now when the damage is tallied, hundreds of those girls that were young and pretty will have disappeared. Anyone that assisted in the departure of them from their home country is guilty of child abuse.

I’m sure all these immigrant young folk are healthy and living an exemplary lifestyle so their immediate enrollment in Obamacare and their modest premiums, which they are timely paying, are having an immediate positive effect on the success and solvency of our new Healthcare system. That surely must be the reason for letting these exemplary young professionals in to find lucrative employment.

Do not let your children go near this man. He has been known to lure in naive and unsuspecting children, even across great and dangerious distances, with offers of candy and cell phones and other free stuff